The Almshouses
THE ALMSHOUSES, 49-50, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196575
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 49-50, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196575
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 49-50, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 49-50, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Auckland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21186 30141
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 MARKET PLACE 634-1/8/80 Nos.49 AND 50 20/09/72 The Almshouses (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Nos.49-52 (Consecutive) The Almshouses)
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.16-19 KING STREET. Shown on OS as 16-19 consecutive. 4 almshouses, now 2. Dated 1845. For Bishop Maltby, replacing almshouses built 1662 for Bishop Cosin. Tudor style. Coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings, and porches with ashlar plinth; slate roof with ashlar gable copings and chimneys. 2 storeys, one window to each original house. Gabled porches with ashlar plinths, between each pair have boarded doors in stone surrounds in left returns, windows inserted in doorways on right returns, and front window under inscribed stone plaque in gable peak. Left plaque, partly eroded, JOHN COSIN BISHOP OF DURHAM AD 1662; right plaque ENLARGED BY EDWARD MALTBY BISHOP OF DURHAM AD 1845. Chamfered surrounds with long and short stones forming jambs to renewed 2-light casements flanking porch. Roofs have flat gable copings on moulded kneelers, with damaged finials to porches; conjoined ashlar chimneys on stone plinths and with ashlar cornices at ends and at centre of ridge. INTERIOR, partly inspected, shows all features renewed late C20.
Listing NGR: NZ2118430144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385721
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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